All news on the topic: Giving birth

Mikhail Murashko, Vladimir Putin's health minister as well as a doctor specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology, has said it is "improper" to delay childbirth for education, a career and money

Lydia Armstrong was snapped as a newborn after being delivered by student nurse Caroline Boyd outside Poole Hospital - now fully grown and a midwife herself, she decided to pose again with her own baby

Group B Strep is the biggest killer of newborn babies in the UK, claiming the lives of one infant a week - yet new data shows more than two thirds of pregnant women had never been told about it

Former The Only Way Is Essex star Ferne McCann recently revealed that she gave birth to her second daughter, which she and fiancé Lorri have named Finty Francis Haines-McCann

The X Factor star Cher Lloyd is currently expecting her second child and recently took to her Instagram page to confidently show off her baby bump as she prepares to meet her tot

A 12-year-old girl was raped by a teenage boy and later fell pregnant with his child. As a result, she was left in need of surgery due to injuries sustained from giving birth, a court heard.

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Sarah Jayne Barron was in "an extreme state of denial" having convinced herself she was not pregnant and was in a "blind panic" when she threw the baby off the balcony

Strictly Come Dancing professional Janette Manrara is preparing to give birth to her first child with husband Aljaž Skorjanec and has said the unborn tot's arrival is imminent

Laura Watson, 29, was asked if she wanted to terminate her pregnancy when her twin girls developed a life-threatening condition in the womb and almost killed each other

Gael Monfils is unable to compete at this year's Wimbledon due to injury and is cheering on his wife Elina Svitolina from home, where he is looking after their young daughter Skai

After losing one child, Matthew from Mersyside and his wife DanDan are struggling to get their other baby back to the UK from China for special treatment - the babies were born prematurely

A Kentucky couple was forced to travel out of state for an abortion due to a strict ban on the procedures. Then, they were unable to hold their dead baby daughter to say goodbye to her

The 28-year-old and her husband Alex Andrew welcomed her baby Arlo Rose Andrew in February and announced the news with a sweet photo on social media

British tourists and locals were enjoying a dip on a beach in Torremolinos, Malaga when the monster shark - later found to have been a blue shark - was seen darting through the waves on June 27

Felicity believes she is the world's biggest McDonald's fan as she's loved the golden arches since she was a baby, her first word was "Donalds" and she's never lost her love for a Happy Meal

Little Anna was born prematurely on a high-speed train from Rome to Turin - and her mum was helped during the delivery by a midwife who was on a video call with Trenitalia staff

Elise Casey, 23, tragically lost her daughter Mollie after months of IVF struggles - but was denied new treatment on the NHS afterwards as she already had the procedure

The 30-year-old mum from Virginia was planning her birthday party when she found out she was 8 weeks pregnant. Her three children thought she was joking when she told them to expect another three siblings

In this week's Pet Club, we remember Honey the Battersea pooch on Pet Remembrance Day, pay thanks to RSPCA rescue staff and shine light on a donkey named after a footballing star

Franny Briggs sprang into action and gave tiny Bobby CPR after mum Jemma went into unexpected labour on the floor of their bathroom at their home in Kirkby, Merseyside

Alex Reid and his fiancée Nikki Manashe have become parents once again to twin boys after her waters broke just 18 weeks into her pregnancy which saw them have a 1% chance of survivial

Scarlett Moffatt surprised fans as she announced the birth of her first child, Jude Xavier Dobinson, who arrived five weeks early

Patryk Bielaszka was starved of oxygen when he was born after doctors ignored his mother Barbara's warning that she needed a caesarean section following a scan she had in Poland

Finley May died at just a month old after suffering severe injuries during his assisted birth when consultants at Hull Women and Children's Hospital opted to use forceps

Scarlett Moffatt welcomed her baby boy with Scott Dobinson, 36, on Thursday and shared two snaps to her 2.4 million Instagram followers of her newborn child just moments after giving birth